Embedded Software Engineer II , Connectivity Systems at eero

At eero our mission is to serve as the central nervous system of the home. While we began by revolutionizing home WiFi we aim to create comprehensive solutions that serve both wireless and wired connectivity needs for customers and businesses across the globe. Our cross-functional team spanning hardware software and manufacturing develops advanced Ethernet switching and gateway products alongside state of the art security features to complement our award-winning mesh WiFi systems. As an Amazon company we combine the best of startup culture with the resources and stability of one of the worlds leading technology companies. Our team builds products that customers love - from mesh routers to high-performance wired networking devices - and were looking for you to join us in shaping the future of the connected home.

We live in a connected world and WiFi has become a critical component to every home. eero is the first product to deliver a whole home WiFi experience using mesh technology to make sure you never have to worry about WiFi ever again. We believe deeply in providing the best connectivity experience possible for our customers.



Key job responsibilities
Hardware Bring-Up & Production Support
- Partner with hardware engineering during board bring-up to debug boot sequences peripheral initialization and device configurations
- Support manufacturing and operations teams to ensure production firmware quality and flash/provisioning reliability
- Develop and maintain low level driver ensuring secure reliable and stable fleet-wide deployments
Embedded Linux Platform Development
- Design develop and maintain system-level services and daemons on eeroOS (embedded Linux) using Golang Python and C/C
- Develop and optimize low-level platform components in C/C for eero devices including system initialization process management and hardware abstraction layers
- Maintain and evolve the eeroOS distribution including kernel configuration package management and system image builds

Networking & Connectivity
- Implement and debug networking features spanning L2L4 (Ethernet Wi-Fi/802.11 TCP/IP mDNS DHCP) within the platform layer
- Collaborate with firmware and radio teams on wireless subsystem integration and performance tuning

Build Infrastructure & Tooling
- Maintain and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines build systems (Yocto/ BitBake or equivalent) and developer tooling to accelerate team velocity and code quality
- Develop automated testing frameworks for device software validation
Data-Driven Quality
- Analyze telemetry and diagnostics data from beta dogfood and production fleets to identify regressions performance issues and improvement opportunities
- Drive root-cause analysis for field issues using remote debugging log analysis and device-level diagnostics
Mentorship & Leadership
- Lead technical design reviews and mentor junior engineers on embedded platform best practices
- Contribute to architectural decisions that impact the full eero device portfolio



A day in the life
- The Connectivity team at eero is looking for an experienced engineer to join the Platform Software Development team. The Platform team is responsible for the operating system which powers all eero devices software build infrastructure which is used by teams developing features on the eero devices Smart Home Hub Automation and Tooling.

- A SDE on the platform team develops applications and features in Golang and Python on eeros operating system which spans across all eero hardware and is also responsible for maintaining and continuously improving the eeroOS operating system and build infrastructure.


About the team
The Platform Software Development team owns eeroOS the embedded Linux-based operating system powering all eero devices along with the software build infrastructure Smart Home Hub integration and automation/tooling used by feature teams across the organization. We operate at the intersection of embedded systems and modern software engineering building reliable performant services that run on resource-constrained networking hardware deployed to millions of homes.

The team also serves as a core group responsible for triaging and resolving customer issues across production beta and dogfood deployments working cross-functionally with Cloud Data and Mobile app teams.



Interested in exploring career opportunities with eero Visit our careers page to view all open positions:
- 3 years of professional software development experience
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience
- 2 years of experience with embedded Linux or Linux-based platform development
- Proficiency in C/C and one scripting/systems language (Python or Golang)

- Experience with Golang for platform/systems service development
- Experience with Linux internals: systemd networking stack (netlink iptables/nftables) filesystems process management
- Experience with building systems for embedded targets (Yocto OpenWrt Buildroot or equivalent)
- Experience with networking protocols (802.11 Ethernet switching TCP/IP mesh networking)
- Experience with Rust in systems programming contexts
- Familiarity with hardware debugging tools (serial consoles JTAG) and reading device trees
- Experience with secure boot firmware signing or OTA update security
- Experience with fleet-scale device management and telemetry systems
- Familiarity with CI/CD for embedded targets (cross-compilation hardware-in-the-loop testing)
- Experience working in resource-constrained environments (memory optimization startup time reduction)
- Track record of debugging complex cross-layer issues (application kernel hardware) encoding:utf-8

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